The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
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- Synopsis
- This samurai epic features Kitano, Japan's leading actor-director, taking up the role of Zatoichi, the blind wandering warrior with a deadly sharp sword who has been celebrated in various Japanese movies and television shows since the 1960s....
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- Starring
- Beat Takeshi Kitano, Michiyo Okusa, Guadalcanal Taka, Yűko Daike
- Director(s)
- Beat Takeshi Kitano
- Distributor(s)
- Miramax
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 115 min.
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Washington Post | Stephen HunterAdd Critic to Favorites
The summer's most rousing action picture.Read the full review
Boston Globe | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites
If there's a larger theme in Zatoichi, it's that nobody is quite who he or she seems.Read the full review
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
The kind of film I more and more find myself seeking out, a film that seems alive in the sense that it appears to have free will; if, in the middle of a revenge tragedy, it feels like adding a suite for hoes and percussion, it does.Read the full review
